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BOWL ELIGIBLE Derek Watson goes around the Vanderbilt defense for Carolina’s second touchdown, photo by candi hauglum Carolina rolls over Vanderbilt BY PRESTON BAINES THK (iAMECOCK If you witnessed this past Saturday’s game, you might not have even realized that this was the same team that fell to the Arkansas Razorbacks 10-7 last week in Little Rock, Ark. But it was, and the Gamecocks bounced back in a way it seems only Lou Holtz can make them ^ do. No. 12 South Carolina (6-1,5-1 SEC) knocked off the Vanderbilt Commodores (1-5, 0-3) in easy fashion for the second consecu tive season, 46-14. Carolina racked up a school record 656 total yards, and the 46 points was the largest amount scored since head coach Lou Holtz took over the rains in 1999. “Our offense played very well,” Holtz said. USC was led on the ground by juniors Derek Watson and Andrew Pinnock. Each had 105 yards and combined for a ma jority of the Gamecocks’ 356 rushing yards. “What you don’t see is how well [Watson and Pinnock] blocked,” Holtz remarked. The next game for Carolina will most likely be the biggest challenge of the season at No. 9 Tennessee (4-1,3-1). ♦ FOR MORE ON THE GAMECOCKS’ 46-14 HOMECOMING VICTORY, SEE PAGE 10 “We’ve got a real big chal lenge at Tennessee,” Holtz said. “This team will be better pre pared for the hostile environ ment.” Comments on this story?E-mail gamecocksports@hotmail.com. Concerned students attend SDIC forum For first time, committee takes questions from USC students BY ADAM BEAM THE GAMECOCK Facing a possible $17 million ■ budget cut at the end of the year, the Strategic Directives and Initiatives Committee is looking into consoli dating some colleges, including the College of Criminal Justice. “The chances of us remaining an independent college is not great because of our numbers,” said Criminal Justice professor Geoff Alpert. Alpert spoke at the most recent SDIC public forum held at the Russell House Theater on Oct. 18. Joining Alpert at the meeting were several students from the College of Criminal Justice, a presence that has been lacking at most SDIC meetings. “I can’t tell you how happy I was to see that many students there,” said SDIC chair Jerry Odom. “That was the purpose of “[The committee] pretty much ran circles around the questions. Everything we asked them was an ‘I don’t know’ or ‘We don’t know what is going to happen yet’ answer.” WHIT ABRAMS FIFTH-YEAR STUDENT, COLLEGE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE navmg line meeting] in me Russell House was to attract stu dents.” Whit Abrams, a fifth-year stu dent in the College of Criminal Justice says he heard about the meeting from his professors. ivry main concern was uiai we are already losing classes, and I guess my biggest concern is that we are going to lose even more ♦ BUDGET, SEE PAGE 4 U.S. jets hit hard near Taliban front Sunday’s attacks against Taliban are the closest, most intense yet |r BY STEVEN GUTKIN ” ASSOCIATED PRESS QALAI DASHT, AFGHANISTAN — U.S. warplanes bombarded Taliban positions Sunday near a front line north of the capital, Kabul, marking what could be the start of a more aggressive cam paign on behalf of opposition forces fighting the Islamic regime. In Kabul, meanwhile, grieving neighbors pulled dust-covered bodies of seven civilians — three women and four children — from the ruins of two homes destroyed Sunday by a U.S. bomb. “This pi lot was like he was blind!” sobbed one neighbor. p, Also Sunday, the British Broadcasting Corp. quoted an Afghan doctor as saying the 10 year-old son of Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar was killed during U.S.-led strikes. The boy died on the first night of bombing raids on the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar, said Dr. Abdul Barri. Barri, who spoke to the BBC as he crossed the border into Pakistan, said Omar’s uncle was hit in the same raid but was thought to still be alive and re ceiving treatment at the hospital at Kandahar. In Pakistan, the U.N. refugee agency renewed appeals Sunday for Afghanistan’s neighbors to open their borders to the refugees — including up to 15,000 trapped on the “no man’s land” near the Pakistani town of Chaman. The attacks Sunday marked the closest and most intense U.S. strikes so far against Taliban po sitions defending Kabul from northern alliance forces, which have been stalled for years 12 to 25 miles north of the city. U.S. jets streaked over the op position — held Panjshir Valley, and opposition officials told an Associated Press reporter in the area that they appeared to strike Taliban positions about one mile behind the front line. Several eyewitnesses, includ ing journalists and residents, also reported Taliban positions bombed in the area. “We are hoping this will be a big help for the future of our forces,” Waisuddin Salik, an op position spokesman, said. Afghanistan’s anti-Taliban forces, an alliance mostly of mi nority ethnic Uzbeks and Tajiks, have been urging the United States to provide close air support for their forces so they can advance on the capital. However, the United States and Britain had been reluctant to help the northern alliance seize Kabul until a broad-based gov ernment had been formed to take over from the Taliban. Focus on Afghanistan Opposition groups were widely ♦ AFGHANISTAN, SEE PAGE 5 USG’S PAST Oct. 25,1865 The General Assembly met for its first session since the burning of the old State House in February of that year. The lawmakers convened in the college chapel, now Longstreet Theater. WEATHER Today Tomorrow Partly cloudy, Partly cloudy 81/55 81/54 vuncjrudii wmb both games Gamecocks avenge one loss, sweep other foe. ♦ PAGE 10 D.C. postal worker is third victim in series of mailings BY LAURA MECKLER ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON - A District of Columbia postal worker is “grave ly ill” with inhaled anthrax, lead ing government officials to order testing for as many as 2,300 more mail employees. Mayor Anthony Williams said Sunday. The man, whose identity was not disclosed, was in serious con dition at a suburban Virginia hos pital. The third person to come down with the most serious form of the disease, he checked into the hospital on Friday and was diag nosed Sunday morning, said Dr. Ivan Walks, the city’s chief health officer. “He is acutely ill,” said Janice Moore, a spokeswoman for Inova Fairfax Hospital. Beginning Sunday, more than 2,100 employees at the city’s main mail processing center and an ad ditional 150 at an air mail handling center near Baltimore Washington International Airporl will be tested for exposure to an thrax spores and receive treat ment, the mayor said. “We’re going to do everything we can and everything we have tc do,” he said. An anthrax-laced letter sent tc Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle was processed at the dis trict facility, but officials said thej did not know whether the worket came into contact with it oi whether there might have beer other tainted letters that have yet to be discovered. After the Daschle letter wa6 dis covered last week, the postal ser vice hired independent contrac INSIDE TODAY’S ISSUE 1 II .1 ^ A A ...ill U« ^ rai V/uniujf **■■■ uc at Russell House First ‘Search for Six’ guest will speak at USC tonight. ♦ PAGE 7 Employee contracts anthrax tors to test the district facility for anthrax, but those results are not yet known, said Deborah Willhite, a postal service executive. Both facilities will be closed in definitely while extensive testing is aone, sne said. The postal worker first devel oped flu-like symptoms in the mid dle of last week but did not go to the hospital until Friday, when he was immediately given antibiotics. Health officials said they do not know whether they began treat ment early enough to save his life. “The prognosis for inhalation anthrax is not great. The earlier you start, the better,” said Anne Peterson, Virginia’s health com missioner. Also Sunday, Dr. John Eisold, the Capitol physician, said 4,500 to 5,000 people have been tested on Capitol Hill since the Daschle let ter was discovered a week ago. Twenty-eight have tested positive for exposure to anthrax but none have contracted the disease. He said confirmation of inhala tion anthrax at the Washington ♦ ANTHRAX, SEE PAGE 3 HOMECOMING PARADE The float by Delta Tau Delta and Alpha Delta PI makes its way past Longstreet Theatre during Friday’s Homecoming Parade, photo by aaron hark ONLINE POLL SEC Championship Do you think the Gamecocks have a chance at the SEC championship? Vote at www.dailygamecock.com. Results are published on Fridays.